ISRO has been working on increasing carrying capacity of launch vehicle, considering it will be used for Gaganyaan. (Source: X/@isro)
ISRO Rocket Launch Today News Live Updates: ISRO is all set to use its biggest rocket LVM-3 to send a communication satellite CMS-03 to space Sunday at 5.26pm from Sriharikota. This is the first time the space agency will put a satellite weighing more than 4,000 kg in the distant geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) from the Indian soil.
Zoom in: LVM-3, earlier referred to as Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle Mark 3 or GSLV Mk 3, uses solid, liquid, as well as cryogenic-fuel based engines to put up to 8,000 kg in low earth orbit (up to an altitude of 2,000 km from Earth’s surface) and up to 4,000 kg in geosynchronous orbit (about 36,000 km). ISRO’s initial plan was to use its workhorse PSLV for polar and low earth orbit launches — much closer to the surface of the Earth — and use GSLV II and GSLV Mk 3 to launch the satellites to the more distant geosynchronous orbits. The GSLV-Mk3 rocket was later adapted in 2022, amid the Russia-Ukraine war, to launch 72 OneWeb satellites in two launches to low earth orbit, prompting the change in name of the rocket.
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The launcher: ISRO’s heaviest launcher is also one of its most successful, with all seven of its flight putting satellites in the intended orbits. It is the launch vehicle that took both Chandrayaan-2 and Chandrayaan-3 to space, in addition to communication satellites GSAT-19 and GSAT-29.
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